Ecclesiastes 3:8

Bishop's Bible

A tyme to loue, and a tyme to hate: A tyme of warre, and a tyme of peace.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
a time to love and a time to hate;a time for war and a time for peace.

Hebrew Names Version
A time to love, And a time to hate; A time for war, And a time for shalom.

King James Version
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

English Standard Version
a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

New American Standard Bible
A time to love and a time to hate; A time for war and a time for peace.

New Century Version
There is a time to love and a time to hate. There is a time for war and a time for peace.

Amplified Bible
A time to love and a time to hate; A time for war and a time for peace.

World English Bible
A time to love, And a time to hate; A time for war, And a time for peace.

Geneva Bible (1587)
A time to loue, and a time to hate: a time of warre, and a time of peace.

Legacy Standard Bible
A time to love and a time to hate;A time for war and a time for peace.

Berean Standard Bible
a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.

Contemporary English Version
There is also a time for love and hate, for war and peace.

Complete Jewish Bible
a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.

Darby Translation
A time to love, and a time to hate; A time of war, and a time of peace.

Easy-to-Read Version
There is a time to love and a time to hate. There is a time for war and a time for peace.

George Lamsa Translation
A time to love and a time to hate; a time for war and a time for peace.

Good News Translation
He sets the time for love and the time for hate, the time for war and the time for peace.

Lexham English Bible
a time to love and a time to hate; a time for war and a time for peace.

Literal Translation
a time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
A tyme to loue, & a tyme to hate: A tyme of warre, and a tyme of peace.

American Standard Version
a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

Bible in Basic English
A time for love and a time for hate; a time for war and a time for peace.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
A time to love, and a time to hate; {S}{S}{N}

King James Version (1611)
A time to loue, and a time to hate: a time of warre, and a time of peace.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
a time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

English Revised Version
a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Tyme of loue, and tyme of hatrede; tyme of batel, and tyme of pees.

Update Bible Version
a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

Webster's Bible Translation
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

New English Translation
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

New King James Version
A time to love, And a time to hate; A time of war, And a time of peace.

New Living Translation
A time to love and a time to hate. A time for war and a time for peace.

New Life Bible
There is a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

New Revised Standard
a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
A time to love and a time to hate, - A time of war, and a time of peace.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A time of love, and a time of hatred. A time of war, and a time of peace.

Revised Standard Version
a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

Young's Literal Translation
A time to love, And a time to hate. A time of war, And a time of peace.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
A time to love and a time to hate; A time for war and a time for peace.

Contextual Overview

¹ Euery thyng hath a tyme, yea all that is vnder the heaue hath his conuenient season. ² There is a tyme to be borne, and a tyme to dye: there is a tyme to plant, and a tyme to plucke vp the thyng that is planted. ³ A tyme to slay, and a tyme to make whole: a tyme to breake downe, and a tyme to builde vp. ⁴ A tyme to weepe, and a tyme to laugh: a tyme to mourne, & a tyme to daunce. ⁵ A tyme to cast away stones, and a tyme to gather stones together: A tyme to imbrace, and a tyme to refrayne from imbracyng. ⁶ A tyme to wynne, and a tyme to lose: A tyme to spare, and a tyme to spende. ⁷ A tyme to cut in peeces, and a tyme to sowe together: A tyme to kepe scilence, and a tyme to speake. ⁸ A tyme to loue, and a tyme to hate: A tyme of warre, and a tyme of peace. ⁹ What hath a man els that doth any thyng, but weerinesse and labour? ¹⁰ For as touchyng the trauayle and carefulnesse which God hath geuen vnto men, I see that he hath geuen it them to be exercised in it.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

time to love: Ezekiel 16:8, Psalms 139:21, Ephesians 3:19, Ephesians 5:25, Ephesians 5:28, Ephesians 5:29, Titus 2:4

a time to hate: 2 Chronicles 19:2, Luke 14:26, Revelation 2:2

a time of war: Genesis 14:14-17, Joshua 8:1-29, Joshua 11:23, 2 Samuel 10:6-19, 1 Kings 5:4, 2 Chronicles 20:1-29, 2 Chronicles 20:30

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 11:1 - after the year

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
And the serpent was suttiller then euery beast of the fielde which ye lord God hadde made, and he sayde vnto the woman: yea, hath God saide, ye shall not eate of euery tree of the garden?

Genesis 3:2
And the woman sayde vnto the serpent: We eate of ye fruite of the trees of the garden.

Genesis 3:3
But as for the fruite of the tree which is in the myddes of the garden, God hath sayde, ye shall not eate of it, neither shal ye touche of it, lest peraduenture ye dye.

Genesis 3:9
And the Lorde called Adam, & sayde vnto hym: where art thou?

Genesis 3:10
Which sayde: I hearde thy voyce in the garden, and was afrayde because I was naked, and hyd my selfe.

Genesis 3:12
And Adam said: The woman whom thou gauest [to be] with me, she gaue me of the tree, and I dyd eate.

Genesis 3:21
Unto Adam also and to his wyfe dyd the Lorde God make garments of skynnes, and he put them on.

Genesis 3:22
And the Lorde God sayde: Beholde, the man is become as one of vs, in knowing good and euyll: And now lest peraduenture he put foorth his hande, and take also of the tree of lyfe and eate, and lyue for euer.

Deuteronomy 4:33
Dyd euer any people heare the voyce of God speakyng out of the middes of a fire, as thou hast hearde, and yet lyued?

Deuteronomy 5:25
Nowe therfore why shoulde we dye? that this great fire shoulde consume vs: If we heare the voyce of the Lord our God any more, we shall dye:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

A time to love, and a time to hate,.... For one to love his friend, and to hate a man, a sinner, as the Targum; to love a friend while he continues such, and hate him, or less love him, when he proves treacherous and unfaithful; an instance of a change of love into hatred may be seen in the case of Amnon, 2 Samuel 13:15. A time of unregeneracy is a time of loving worldly lusts and sinful pleasures, the company of wicked men, and all carnal delights and recreations; and a time of conversion is a time to hate what was before loved, sin, and the conversion of sinners, the garment spotted with the flesh, the principles and practices, though not the persons, of ungodly men; and even to hate, that is, less love, the dearest friends and relations, in comparison of, or when in competition with, Christ;

a time of war, and a time of peace; for nations to be engaged in war with each other, or to be at peace, which are continually revolving; and there is a time when there will be no more war. In a spiritual sense, the present time, or state of things, is a time of war; the Christian's life is a warfare state, though it will be soon accomplished, in which he is engaging in fighting with spiritual enemies, sin, Satan, and the world: the time to come, or future state, is a time of peace, when saints shall enter into peace, and be no more disturbed by enemies from within or from without. In the Midrash, all the above times and seasons are interpreted of Israel, and applied to them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ecclesiastes 3:8. A time to love, - hate, - of war, - of peace. —

"Love turns to hatred; interest or caprice

Dissolves the firmest knot by friendship tied.

O'er rival nations, with revenge inflamed,

Or lust of power, fell Discord shakes awhile

Her baleful torch: now smiling Peace returns.

The above paraphrase on the verses cited contains a general view of the principal occurrences of time, in reference to the human being, from his cradle to his grave, through all the operations of life.